Thea: The Awakening

Thea: The Awakening

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Description

Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based strategic survival game steeped in Slavic myth and monstrosity set after an apocalyptic force known only as The Darkness has engulfed the world. There are Strigas and Baba Yagas aplenty, but there are no heroes, no monster slayers, and no great armies capable of banishing them. You have only a few hopeless and starving survivors who are desperately trying to stay alive. You are their last and only true hope!
The game combines turn-based strategic gameplay with the tension and grit of a rogue-like, a captivating story you can uncover through a series of in-game events, and a unique combat system based on a complex card battle game.
The wide range of gameplay features allows you to proceed through the world of Thea the way you prefer. You can choose to stay in your village and build up defenses, or you can go out and explore the world. Conflicts can be resolved through assassination, stealth, diplomacy, hunting, and various other ways depending on the skills your people possess. Fighting is not your only solution to conflict!
Choose your game style and save your people from the Darkness!
Key Features:
- Survival game in a dark fantasy setting with hexagonal turn-based strategic gameplay!
- Huge procedural world to explore – each play-through is a new adventure!
- Village management with a variety of structures to build, upgrades and technologies to discover, and items to craft!
- Over 4400 items that you can craft in your village or gather in the game’s world!
- Expeditions in which each member carries his or her gear and gains experience in battle, improving abilities like collecting resources, diplomacy, healing, black magic, and dozens more!
- Over 200 non-linear story events that can grant you riches or deprive you of all your goods including life!
- Exciting card battle game system that can be resolved by combat, diplomacy, curses, and more!
- Over 100 types of deadly creatures, many inspired by Slavic Mythology!
- Procedural creature instances – Each creature, even in a swarm of spiders, has its own skills and stats!
- Day & night cycle influence gameplay – Villagers can better recognize threats from afar during the day, and creatures become more aggressive at night!
- Multiple game endings depending on your choices with rewards and unlocks carrying over to your next play-through!

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Reviewed ByTalenZyn

Xbox

55User Rating: 5 out of 5

Submitted on6/1/2017

Review title of TalenZynVery Addictive

I'll let you know up front that all battles are resolved by a card mini-game. I missed that in the description (my own fault). So I grumbled the first hour or so, but then found myself thoroughly having fun a dozen hours later and wondering where all the time went.
My initial impression is this a 'simple to learn, hard to master' game that I have barely scratched the surface of.

90 out of 92 people found this helpful.

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Reviewed ByUnknown

Xbox

55User Rating: 5 out of 5

Submitted on6/8/2017

Review title of UnknownCould be a bit better

A few more Gods/Goddess would make it that much better. And add a few more contol options like quickly getting to 1 in a stack of 10000+. And maybe add a "mini-map" or something with key points on it. But over all, a really fun game. 10/10 would recommend.

36 out of 39 people found this helpful.

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Reviewed ByUnknown

Xbox

55User Rating: 5 out of 5

Submitted on6/11/2017

Review title of UnknownGreat Game Play

Great game with lots of replay. Plays like a cross between Civ and Magic the Gathering. Has a few UX issues, moving through menus, context menus, notifications stack splitting. The story is a bit limited and can get repetative. But the rogue like is interesting

26 out of 28 people found this helpful.

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Reviewed Bym3chladon

Xbox

55User Rating: 5 out of 5

Submitted on6/4/2017

Review title of m3chladonReally helps flesh out a lacking genre on Xbox

I bought it on PC also and prefer Xbox controls.

21 out of 23 people found this helpful.

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Reviewed ByED JACKAL 420

Xbox

45User Rating: 4 out of 5

Submitted on3/30/2018

Review title of ED JACKAL 420Great Strategy & RPG Game, Needs DLC

Fun to play hexagon strategy game with traditional rpg elements mixed into the game play. Has a very high replay value for a game that costs under $20 to purchase. The card battle & event system does take time to get use too, but it becomes fairly easy after playing a few games. The only thing missing from the game is the Multiplayer Co-op DLC from the steam pc version. Adding the Multiplayer Co-op DLC would massively increase the replay value and enjoyment of the game.

10 out of 10 people found this helpful.

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Reviewed ByVoodooDrackus

Xbox

55User Rating: 5 out of 5

Submitted on6/1/2017

Review title of VoodooDrackusHOMM with more depth

This is a just one more turn game ala CIV and it is majestic. If you love strategy games, you owe it to yourself to grab this one.

42 out of 49 people found this helpful.

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Reviewed ByCandi Gir1

Xbox

15User Rating: 1 out of 5

Submitted on10/8/2017

Review title of Candi Gir1Keeps losing my save data, its a problem

I have lost hours of game time on 2 occasions...like spent my whole day off chillin on the xbox kinda hours. Unlocked a god and still show the achievement for it, got to an ending, but when I logged back on the gods I unlocked were gone and the progress to achieve that was back to about 50%. Saved progress on xbox achievements, but backwards in time on the game. Pretty big bummer.
Other than that, I loved playing it, simple but interesting, old school, story driven game. Hope it is a fixable problem.
Update: Unlocked God, Unlocked most of advancement trees, planned to be completionist, acheivements unlocked, saving constantly...hubby closes game not realizing my fear of more data loss. Click "continue game" and Im back to 13th turn rather than about 700. I'm done trying to play it. Very disappointed.

18 out of 21 people found this helpful.

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Reviewed Bymonkburns

Xbox

55User Rating: 5 out of 5

Submitted on6/2/2017

Review title of monkburnsfun with replay value

Great stategy/survival. No playthough is the same. Wish the right and left bumpers split a stack to 1 so taking 20 items from 5000 would be easier.

19 out of 24 people found this helpful.

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Reviewed ByBloodyKisses x

Xbox

45User Rating: 4 out of 5

Submitted on11/13/2017

Review title of BloodyKisses xNew Beginnings

Darkness has plagued the land of Thea due to the fall of the gods. Until just recently, the sun has emerged and hope has returned. You play as one of the gods and you have to guide your people to figure out what happened and shape the future. There are eight gods total to choose from, each with their own perks. You'll start off with two and will have to unlock the other six by leveling up the gods you have. From there you manage a village and a party of people to explore with. Each turn you must explore and gather resources to survive. Lots of events will trigger through out and you'll have to decide the best approach your people are suited for. Such as fight, tactical, sneak etc. All events are resolved by a card game which can be a lot to learn at first but fun once you do. Achievements are not too bad but require grinding to gnab. I do feel the main story was a bit short but higher difficulties add replay and they are quite challenging. In the end, I found Thea entertaining and fun.

8 out of 9 people found this helpful.

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Reviewed ByNuclearToggler

Xbox

15User Rating: 1 out of 5

Submitted on10/6/2017

Review title of NuclearTogglerRandomly reset my progress

About 10 hours into the game set my progress back 5 hours when I selected Continue from the main menu. I am 100% certain I selected Save and Quit during my previous play session. I also used manual Save numerous times during the missing time. The game only has 1 save slot so this lost progress was unrecoverable. If you are going to make a game with only 1 save slot you had better make sure that 1 slot works. The game is also highly dependent on random events so there is a very good chance if I replayed the lost time things wouldn't go as well. This, along with the potential of the same glitch happening again kills any desire I have to continue playing. Instead I will just warn others to steer clear.

13 out of 17 people found this helpful.

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